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2024-2025 General Catalog 
  
2024-2025 General Catalog

Political Science, BA


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First Year


Second Year


Fall Semester


Total Credit Hours: 15


Total Credit Hours: 15


Third Year


Fourth Year


Fall Semester


Total Credit Hours: 15


Total Credit Hours: 15


Total Semester Hours Required 120-122


 

G General Education Requirement (GER). See the GER  section of this catalog for the list of courses that fulfill this requirement if no specific course is listed. Honors equivalents are acceptable for all GER courses.

†† Major course requiring a grade of “C” or higher.

To be chosen from Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Economics, Geography, Political Science, or Sociology on the GER Social Sciences list. 

Twelve (12) semester hours in one foreign language (taken sequentially) are required.

A two-course sequence is required (see GER section of this catalog for options). If the two-course sequence is taken in the physical sciences, the additional three-hour course must be taken from the life sciences, and vice versa.

Majors will acquire an Experiential Learning experience by participating in an internship, a political poll, or Study Abroad, or by writing and presenting an Honors Senior thesis or independent research project.

Majors planning to attend graduate or law school are encouraged to consider a Minor in Communication, Criminal Justice, English, Foreign Language, History, Geography, Philosophy, Psychology, or Sociology.

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